- Cinematic term- a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favour of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm.
- Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of realism, subjectivity, and commentary allowed these movies to have ambiguous characters, motives, and even endings that were not so clear-cut.
- Arthur Penn, working on Bonny and Clyde was influenced —one might almost say inspired—by Truffaut’s (see below) “Shoot the Piano Player,”
films that influenced the ground-breaking Hollywood classic:
- Scarface (1932)
- Gun Crazy (1950)
- Seven Samurai (1954) Toho Co., Ltd.
- Breathless (1960)
- Shoot the Pianist (1960)
- In a way Bonnie and Clyde were pioneers, consolidating the vein of violence in American history and exploiting it, for the first time in the mass media. Under Arthur Penn’s direction, this is a film aimed squarely and unforgivingly at the time we are living in.
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